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Carlos Batlle is Associate
Research Professor with Comillas Pontifical University's Institute for Research in Technology
(IIT) in Madrid. He also participates in the university's
master's degree in the Electric Power Industry (Erasmus Mundus) as
professor of Electric Power System Regulation and Electricity Markets. He is visiting scholar under the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology's MIT Energy Initiative.
There, in addition to teaching a course entitled Engineering, Economics and Regulation of the Electric Power Sector,
headed by Professors Pérez-Arriaga and Schmalensee, he supervises master's
dissertations and coordinates research activities in the context of an
MITEI-IIT joint initiative. He is a Electricity
Advisor and member of the Training Programme for European Energy Regulators
at the Florence School of Regulation, an
institution under the aegis of the European University in Florence, and
directs its annual training course for energy regulatory institutions and
energy companies known as the FSR Summer School on Regulation of Energy
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He has headed over 20 research projects and
participated in many others. He
has worked and lectured
extensively on the operation, planning and risk management of electricity
generation and networks and more specifically on electric power system
regulation. He specialises in electric power systems economic and regulatory
analysis, areas in which he has also rendered consultant services for
governments, international institutions, industrial associations and
utilities in over 20 countries, focusing especially on Latin American power
systems. He has published over 20 papers in
national and international journals and conference proceedings. He has developed most part of his work in the
following areas: • Market design and regulation for wholesale and retail electricity markets. - Competition and strategic behavior analysis. - Security of supply mechanisms in competitive power systems. Tariff design in a competitive environment. • Electricity markets modeling. - Analysis and optimization of the operation and planning of generation, transmission and distribution in large-scale power systems and markets. - Fundamental and quantitative risk analysis of wholesale electricity market prices. • Economic instruments for environmental and climate change policy. He obtained his
Electrical Engineering degree from the School of Engineering (ICAI) of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas,
Madrid, Spain, after having spent his final year at the École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland,
where he submitted his diploma dissertation in artificial intelligence. He
received the doctoral degree in September 2002 for his dissertation “A
strategic production costing model for electricity generation risk analysis”. |
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